Well, I don't know about why anyone else thinks it's funny, but I think it's funny because Tina Fey killed the delivery of the line, which is (in part) why it's entered the lexicon as having been said by Palin.

I don't know of any comedian who has struck gold by lampooning a politician as being extra-smart, by the way.

I just skimmed through most of the photos you posted from today and have to ask.....what's with this goofy hatred of private employers?

Dane county has 80,000 government employees. Someone has to be a tax donar in order to pay the salaries and benefits of those 80 thousand people.

For those from Western Wisconsin and can pick up Twin Cities radio stations....the Sioux Falls Development Assoc runs some pretty to-the-point commercials about the advantages of doing business in South Dakota vs Minnesota. Perhaps they should start advertising in Wisconsin also.

Is there any sign on the pro union side that is not simply an attempt at insult. Am I supposed reevaluate my opinion from that? The only one that makes sense is "Why am eye here?" Even then, I have no idea why they are there. What is the purpose after a month of this failure?

pbAndj, that is actually not accurate either. I believe the quote was formulated within the context of Alaska having ties to Russia due to their proximity and their common history. I believe she mentioned an official visit from Russia as well, but you are welcome to find the video and watch it yourself. And for the record, although I have made this clear in the past, I am not a "palinite", but I do have a rare penchant for telling the truth.

At least she's not an elderly man with a history of intracranial aneurysms and a mouth that has no disengage lever. Remember, at the end of the day, 2008 was not a choice between Obama and Palin. It was a choice between Biden and Palin. The American people failed.

Peter Sellers lampooned Obama as being smarter than he actually is in "Being There." Does that count?

I also agree with the other poster. It is hilarious that so many of the signs mention corporations. They might as well mention the boogeyman. It would be just as relevant. That's why you can't do a good parody of leftists. They have beaten you to it.

The state of Alaska has many interactions with Russia due to its location. The heavy military presence in AK is there for a reason. PB&J you prove my point about your lack of intelligence with just about every thing you post.

In both situations the claim is that being physically close to Alaska makes Palin a foreign policy expert. Which is absurd, and rightly mocked by Fey.

Yeah...didn't Barry Soetero claim tht living in Indonesia when he was in grade school made him a foreign policy expert? It's almost like like politicians puffing up their resumes is a commonplace occurrence or something.

In both situations the claim is that being physically close to Alaska makes Palin a foreign policy expert. Which is absurd, and rightly mocked by Fey."

How can you lie like that with a straight face? Neither of those make a claim to "expert". That's your own invention and the party line, but it's not even suggested by what you linked.

I understand, I really do, that at the time it was necessary to create this fantasy because the modest experience that Palin had put Obama's childhood in Indonesia to shame. That's what your guy had, after all. He was a kid in a foreign country for a short while. Palin, OTOH, conducted deals with Canada, dealt with border issues with both Canada and Russia, was CiC of the Alaska ANG that waves wing-tips at Russian planes and guards the air space, and lastly, had a direct interest in being somewhat current on Russian internal politics because of the impact on oil production.

So make it a joke. Lie that she was setting herself up, or anyone else was, as an *expert*.

Because your guy didn't have sh*t.

Still doesn't have a clue.

Oh, and I'm supposed to solve my financial problems by buying a new car.

The hatred of corporations....I used to work in finance for a Fortune 100 company. If the Madison left only knew how much in big businesses pay in taxes.

Employment taxes (many types of these). Huge property taxes. Various business licenses. Special assessments. Sales and use taxes. Local state and federal income tax (unless you are GE). Even a NYC "priviledge" tax for priviledge of doing business in NYC.

That is how Dane county is able to afford 80,000 gov't employees.

And yes, my former employer would donate money to liberal pressure groups to buy favors from them.

Did you want to say something about her? Maybe something she said in her speech that you disagree with?

What did she say in her speech?

Oh, nevermind, I do understand you know. It's not about Sarah Palin, it's about yelling her down, deciding for others what they are allowed to think or hear, because you get to be right simply by being so special.

It's about piling on with extremely rude people with really stupid signs who've been told that they're more moral because they're in public service and the money to pay their salaries comes from a payroll fairy, corporations are profit motivated and automatically less moral, and have an obligation to support the "public" and if someone wants to balance a budget it's only because they're mean or a racist, but I repeat myself.

Sarah Palin had more foreign policy experience, more executive experience, and still has more common sense and native understanding than the fellow elected president in 2008.

It's interesting/funny that you can look at those clips and think it's a lie to interpret that flailing as flailing. In both situations Palin/Cindy were babbling nonsense because they had no legitimate way of saying Palin was experienced regarding foreign policy.

You really can't recognize that flailing? Seriously!?

Are you metaphysically sure that your interpretations are 100% unbiased?

Flailing is as flailing does, even when the failier can't recognize their flailness.

It's telling that to criticize Palin you have to go back 3 years. You know, to back before we got to see who actually posses some wisdom and who does not. What she said was accurate, honest and THREE YEARS AGO. She just gave a speech today, and has been opining all this time and apparently you can't dispute anything she's said. Would you like to compare what Biden or Obama have come up with in that time? Because there are some brilliant and honest quotes available from those geniuses - the ones you think are smart. Kinda makes you wonder how good you are at judging such things.

But she did have modest experience. Cindy was flailing some, but it just seems really weird to me to ask a candidates wife about the qualifications of a candidate other than her husband, and even then it's supposed to be character questions. Palin wasn't flailing at all, but was confident. Russia is their neighbor and she would have had routine contact and interest.

So it all needs a straw man. The straw man to be cut down is this lie that someone was claiming Palin was an expert. Of course she wasn't an expert.

She was just far more experienced than Obama was, and being fair about that was never an option.

Synova palin is a blank slate and only in it for the $$$ which is fine ~ free enterprise lives!

Nate Silver was convinced (2) years ago she was gonna run for president and I was one of the few at his old blog who disagreed. It indeed will be sad for all concerned if she does not run, but I'll "try" to muddle thru somehow.

Re: mama grizzly the phrase that come to mind ~ there's no there there. :-P

Deduction indicates that what pbAndj and many others call stupid is a quality that is incredibly effective at calling things correctly, advancing political ideas, winning influence and votes and damaging the left while rubbing them into a frenzy. I think this quality needs a different name, but their vocabulary is limited, so we get "stupid".

"there is a reason that Sarah and Cindy rolled it out. Because that's all there is."

Of course. You think you discovered something new here. They didn't say it made her an expert on foreign affairs. It IS all they had, and it was more than Obama had, and more than Biden usefully absorbed in 3 decades in government. So what.

I don't believe that she is. But, I do think that it's possible for her to be smart and unknowledgeable about foreign policy, among many other things.

BTW, I've even stood up for W's intelligence when hanging w/ some hardcore cons who had turned on him, and started to think he wasn't so bright.

"so what" Indeed. But, this all started because of the first comment here. I noted how Fey was inspired by Palin's actual comment. If I knew I'd be blathering on like this I would have resisted.

chuck,

So Walker helped the union because he was going to fire them, but then he didn't fire them, he took money, rights, and benefits from them instead. My guess is that they'd prefer not being helped that way.

For the record, I think they should be fired, based on performance. But, I don't consider my views to be helpful to them.

"So if you have a union job vs being an unemployed union member, then Walker did help you."

I suppose we could give them that one on a technicality, though. Because being an employed union member doesn't seem to be the first choice of the unions themselves. It could easily hurt the union and hurt it significantly, to allow the rule changes that enable local governments to balance their budgets without layoffs.

pbandy....I worked for a company that was doing outsourcing to India. They told us that several dozen of us will be fired due to outsourcing. We asked if we could take a pay cut to stay with this company. They said no.

You would think the gov't employees would be happy to keep their jobs in exchange for paying a little bit into their generous benefits.

He refused to go after Obama's record as a race hustler and America hater. Democrats thought this was a very good thing.

Because McCain agreed to lose.

View this Palin hatred through this lens. You can bet that Palin won't care whether Democrats think she's reasonable and moderate. You can bet she'll go after Obama like an attack dog.

McCain lost. He lost respectably. Want to do that one all over again?

One of my most unforgettable moments of the 2008 election campaign occurred when John McCain and Sarah Palin held a rally in Waukesha. James T. Harris, a black conservative who coincidentally spoke at the Tea Party rally yesterday, stood up and asked McCain when he was going to start "fighting back"; and when he was going to attack Obama's questionable associations. At the time Obama was claiming Bill Ayers was just some random guy he knew from around his Hyde Park neighborhood.

McCain responded by telling Harris that his "reward would be in heaven." That comment immediately told me that McCain would lose because he'd rather not fight.

And McCain's answer was incredibly condescending on other levels. It was the same view held by many about the early abolitionists like Nat Turner and John Brown, and later civil rights activists. "Don't stir up trouble...just be a good Christian and you'll get your reward in heaven." It's all the more ironic because there's no real indication that McCain is particularly religious.

As a black conservative that exchange is etched indelibly in my mind and increased my respect for Sarah Palin. Why should I fight for McCain when he was unwilling to fight for himself? Palin, on the other hand, has showed that she will fight for what she believes.

Insightful post, the left hates (fears!) Palin exactly because she will stand and fight for what she believes and refuses to be cowed by the left.

Masters of projection, the left tells us exactly what they think and are up to. They have plenty of fools they use to distract (regular readers here at Althouse know who the tools of the left are that regularly leave their verbal 'droppings' laying about).

Joe Biden is demonstrably one of the most embarrassing persons that have ever held public office in the history of this country - but, like dark family secrets, Biden is often kept locked away in a closet in order to minimize his exposure - those time he has, are well-chronicled.

The left has no reason to crow about their representatives - and they rarely do, evidenced by the amount of time they spend attacking the right with their lies and smears.

Attacking the competition is not a good way to try and make a sale - rather, one should tout the relative strengths and related benefits of what it is you are trying to sell.

Attacking the competition is tell-tale in that what the person is really saying is 'because what I am selling is not so great, I have to rely on knocking my competition'.

If you know anything at all about sales strategy/ psychological approach, this is a losing strategy.

I continue to be amused by the union/democrats that call Walker and Palin corporate whores. Obama is in bed with corporate america more than any previous president. Most of his czars are from corporate america. GE and Google are literally in his backpocket.

"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency...Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president." via the Czech Republic newspaper Prager Zeitung

"Remember when, during the campaign, Palin took that call from Nicolas Sarkozy?"

Funny, because somebody fooled her. Was Obama also fooled by someone? When Obama first met Ayers, did he: not know who he was (making Obama stupid), know who he was but didn't care, or know who he was and was thrilled to finally meet him (the latter two making Obama not stupid but evil).

It's a real shame that some of you don't know jack about which you speak. You especially don't know jack about AK, and it's direct ties to foreign countries through their trade agreements. Foreign policy is not only about military concerns.

During Palin's governorship she met with many ambassadors & dignataries from foreign countries dealing with internationl issues on a regular basis. International investment & trade contribute heavily to AK's economy.

To name just a few countries she had to deal with...Canada (given), Iceland, Republic of Korea (which has a consular office in AK), Russia (Ambassador Kislyak), UK, New Zealand, Hungary, Norway, The Philippines, China, Mexico, Poland, Finland, Norway. Oh, and add France to that list, too.

Like I said, those are just a few. Name any other governor in the lower 48 that has regular interaction with that many foreign countries.

And, yes because of AK's close proximity to Russia, it would be ignorant to think that Palin would not be briefed on the threats that Russia may pose to national defense through AK. She was CinC of the AK NG, of course. And there is missile defense in AK, correct?

Oh, and all of this can be proven. Look it up. There are even pictures for those that don't have higher intellectual capacity.

I went through a few of these photo's. They seem like pretty vile people.

I don't think you should waste anymore time on them. I know I won't and I won't be commenting on anymore Wisconsin protest threads. They have become crushingly boring reptititive drivel....and that's just shiloh.